My name is Dana Dodge, this is my second semester here at College of Menominee Nation. I am studying for Computer Science. I am 26 years old. Artists: Julian Beever (**http://www.julianbeever.net/pave.htm**) Julian Beever is an English chalk artist who has been creating trompe-l'œil chalk drawings on pavement surfaces since the mid-1990s. He uses a projection technique called anamorphosis to create the illusion of three dimensions when viewed from the correct angle. It is often possible to position a person within the image as if they were interacting with the scene. Beever first designs his work on paper. Once finalized, a camera is placed at a distance from the art on the pavement which he returns to in order to observe the image through the lens a number of times, as the camera's wide angled lens can create an optical illusion which distorts the actual size of objects, which aids in maintaining perspective. Beever works internationally as a freelance artist and creates murals for companies. Besides this pavement art, Beever also paints murals with acrylic paints and replicas of the works of masters and oil paintings, and creates collages. Among his other work are drawings, usually themed around music. Daniel Libeskind (**http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Libeskind**) Daniel Libeskind, (born May 12, 1946 in Lodz, Poland) is an American architect, artist, and set designer of Polish-Jewish descent. His buildings include the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, the extension to the Denver Art Museum in the United States, the Grand Canal Theatre in Dublin, the Imperial War Museum North in Salford Quays, England, the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada, the Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabrück, Germany, the Danish Jewish Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, and the Wohl Centre at the Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel.His portfolio also includes several residential projects. Libeskind's work has been exhibited in major museums and galleries around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Bauhaus Archives, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Centre Pompidou.On February 27, 2003, Libeskind won the competition to be the master plan architect for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan. Rado Javor aka:Radojavor (http://gods-of-art.com/art-of-rado-javor) (http://radojavor.deviantart.com/) Rado Javor is a Russian digital artist from Slovakia that brought digital painting to a whole new level. Current Residence: Slovakia/UK, Favorite style of art: magical realism, Operating System: Win7
Tom Savini (**http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Savini**) Thomas Vincent "Tom" Savini (born November 3, 1946) is an American actor, stuntman, director, award-winning special effects and makeup artist.He is known for his work on the Living Dead films directed by George A. Romero, as well as Creepshow, The Burning, Friday the 13th, The Prowler, and Maniac. He directed the 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead. Though officially retired from special effects, he has continued to direct, produce and star in several movies. Savini has been known to refer movie make-up effects projects to graduates of his school. He has appeared in films such as Dawn of the Dead (and its remake), From Dusk till Dawn, Grindhouse, and Machete. Christian Boltanski
(http://www.google.com/search?q=christian+boltanski&hl=en&prmd=imvnso&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=RxknT4myNeaBsgKAteCMAg&sqi=2&ved=0CD4QsAQ&biw=1600&bih=730) Christian Boltanski (born 1944 in Paris) is French sculptor, photographer, painter and film maker. 1986 was the year Boltanski began creating mixed media/materials installations with light as essential concept.
Takashi Murakami (http://english.kaikaikiki.co.jp/artworks/list/C4) Takashi Murakami was Born 1962, Tokyo, Japan. He is an internationally prolific contemporary Japanese artist. He works in fine arts media—such as painting and sculpture—as well as what is conventionally considered commercial media —fashion, merchandise, and animation— and is known for blurring the line between high and low art. He coined the term superflat, which describes both the aesthetic characteristics of the Japanese artistic tradition and the nature of post-war Japanese culture and society. Superflat is also used as a moniker to describe Murakami’s own artistic style and that of other Japanese artists he has influenced. Andreas Gursky
(http://www.matthewmarks.com/artists/andreas-gursky/) Andreas Gursky (January 15, 1955) is a German visual artist known for his enormous architecture and landscape color photographs, often employing a high point of view. Rhein II, an image by Gursky, fetched $4.3m (£2.7m) at Christie's, New York on November 8, 2011, becoming the most expensive photograph ever sold.
Victor Vasarely
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Vasarely) Victor Vasarely born April 1906 - 15 March 1997, Paris) was a Hungarian French artist whose work is generally seen as aligned with Op-art. His work entitled Zebra, created by Vasarely in the 1930s, is considered by some to be one of the earliest examples of Op-art. Vasarely died in Paris in 1997.
Paul Gauguin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gauguin) Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist. He was an important figure in the Symbolist movement as a painter, sculptor, print-maker, ceramist, and writer. His bold experimentation with coloring led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the way to Primitivism and the return to the pastoral. He was also an influential proponent of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms.
Georgia O'Keeffe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_O%27Keeffe) Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American artist. Her abstract imagery of the 1910s and early 1920s is among the most innovative of any work produced in the period by American artists. She revolutionized the tradition of flower painting in the 1920s by making large-format paintings of enlarged blossoms, presenting them close up as if seen through a magnifying lens. And her depictions of New York buildings, most of which date from the same decade, have been recognized as among the most compelling of any paintings of the modern city.
Artists:
Julian Beever
(**http://www.julianbeever.net/pave.htm**)
Julian Beever is an English chalk artist who has been creating trompe-l'œil chalk drawings on pavement surfaces since the mid-1990s. He uses a projection technique called anamorphosis to create the illusion of three dimensions when viewed from the correct angle. It is often possible to position a person within the image as if they were interacting with the scene.
Beever first designs his work on paper. Once finalized, a camera is placed at a distance from the art on the pavement which he returns to in order to observe the image through the lens a number of times, as the camera's wide angled lens can create an optical illusion which distorts the actual size of objects, which aids in maintaining perspective.
Beever works internationally as a freelance artist and creates murals for companies.
Besides this pavement art, Beever also paints murals with acrylic paints and replicas of the works of masters and oil paintings, and creates collages. Among his other work are drawings, usually themed around music.
Daniel Libeskind
(**http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Libeskind**)
Daniel Libeskind, (born May 12, 1946 in Lodz, Poland) is an American architect, artist, and set designer of Polish-Jewish descent. His buildings include the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, the extension to the Denver Art Museum in the United States, the Grand Canal Theatre in Dublin, the Imperial War Museum North in Salford Quays, England, the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada, the Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabrück, Germany, the Danish Jewish Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, and the Wohl Centre at the Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel.His portfolio also includes several residential projects. Libeskind's work has been exhibited in major museums and galleries around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Bauhaus Archives, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Centre Pompidou.On February 27, 2003, Libeskind won the competition to be the master plan architect for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan.
Rado Javor aka: Radojavor
(http://gods-of-art.com/art-of-rado-javor)
(http://radojavor.deviantart.com/)
Rado Javor is a Russian digital artist from Slovakia that brought digital painting to a whole new level. Current Residence: Slovakia/UK, Favorite style of art: magical realism, Operating System: Win7
Tom Savini
(**http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Savini**)
Thomas Vincent "Tom" Savini (born November 3, 1946) is an American actor, stuntman, director, award-winning special effects and makeup artist.He is known for his work on the Living Dead films directed by George A. Romero, as well as Creepshow, The Burning, Friday the 13th, The Prowler, and Maniac. He directed the 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead. Though officially retired from special effects, he has continued to direct, produce and star in several movies. Savini has been known to refer movie make-up effects projects to graduates of his school. He has appeared in films such as Dawn of the Dead (and its remake), From Dusk till Dawn, Grindhouse, and Machete.
Christian Boltanski
(http://www.google.com/search?q=christian+boltanski&hl=en&prmd=imvnso&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=RxknT4myNeaBsgKAteCMAg&sqi=2&ved=0CD4QsAQ&biw=1600&bih=730)
Christian Boltanski (born 1944 in Paris) is French sculptor, photographer, painter and film maker. 1986 was the year Boltanski began creating mixed media/materials installations with light as essential concept.
Takashi Murakami
(http://english.kaikaikiki.co.jp/artworks/list/C4)
Takashi Murakami was Born 1962, Tokyo, Japan. He is an internationally prolific contemporary Japanese artist. He works in fine arts media—such as painting and sculpture—as well as what is conventionally considered commercial media —fashion, merchandise, and animation— and is known for blurring the line between high and low art. He coined the term superflat, which describes both the aesthetic characteristics of the Japanese artistic tradition and the nature of post-war Japanese culture and society. Superflat is also used as a moniker to describe Murakami’s own artistic style and that of other Japanese artists he has influenced.
Andreas Gursky
(http://www.matthewmarks.com/artists/andreas-gursky/)
Andreas Gursky (January 15, 1955) is a German visual artist known for his enormous architecture and landscape color photographs, often employing a high point of view. Rhein II, an image by Gursky, fetched $4.3m (£2.7m) at Christie's, New York on November 8, 2011, becoming the most expensive photograph ever sold.
Victor Vasarely
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Vasarely)
Victor Vasarely born April 1906 - 15 March 1997, Paris) was a Hungarian French artist whose work is generally seen as aligned with Op-art. His work entitled Zebra, created by Vasarely in the 1930s, is considered by some to be one of the earliest examples of Op-art. Vasarely died in Paris in 1997.
Paul Gauguin
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gauguin)
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist. He was an important figure in the Symbolist movement as a painter, sculptor, print-maker, ceramist, and writer. His bold experimentation with coloring led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the way to Primitivism and the return to the pastoral. He was also an influential proponent of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms.
Georgia O'Keeffe
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_O%27Keeffe)
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American artist. Her abstract imagery of the 1910s and early 1920s is among the most innovative of any work produced in the period by American artists. She revolutionized the tradition of flower painting in the 1920s by making large-format paintings of enlarged blossoms, presenting them close up as if seen through a magnifying lens. And her depictions of New York buildings, most of which date from the same decade, have been recognized as among the most compelling of any paintings of the modern city.